For more than ten years, the Africa Graffitis storytelling company has brought together storytellers, magicians of words, griots, fans of the art of orality around storytelling during the day dedicated to this art.
This year, the Storytelling and Oral Arts Resource Center, headed by itinerant storyteller Jorus Mabiala, brought together the percussionists and storytellers of the Tam-Tam of Pointe-Noire, the storyteller Julia Mvila who delivered a tale about the Loango kingdom and its various successions. A tale written by Jorus Mabiala.
The activity was enhanced from start to finish by the percussion group Les Tam-Tam de Pointe-Noire who offered a wonderful entertainment made up of dances, songs, tales…, strongly applauded by the good-natured audience who took assault space.
The narrated tour of the photo exhibitions “France-Congo; Congo-France; Mputu-Kongo; Kongo-Mputu Everything is dance” by artist-photographer Sophie Gillmann brought the activity to an end. A wild aperitif consisting of local drinks and local appetizers was served to the public as a thank you.
Launched in 2013 in Pointe-Noire, National Storytelling Day aims to revalorize ancestral values embodied by the wisdom of ancestors buried in orality.
For Jorus Mabiala, this day not only allows the transmission of ancestral wisdom to youth, but it also serves as a pretext for the resurrection of this art once prized by Africans “The story is the first theater for us Congolese. In mbongui at the time, parents told stories to their children, who religiously followed the wise advice and morals which concluded these tales. Africa Graffitis wants, through this activity and others of course, tell the public that although Africa is the cradle of orality, we must always strive to perpetuate this art to prevent it from being precipitated by the fault of new technologies of information and communication in the dustbin of oblivion”, he concluded.
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